Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1909 — GRADING THEME OF GRAIN MEN [ARTICLE]

GRADING THEME OF GRAIN MEN

Committee Appointed to Settle All Important Question.

CHICAGO GAINS CONCESSIONS Some of the Demands Which Are Presented by Delegates From the City Where the Bulk of Trading Is Done Are Granted by the Convention In Indianapolis Others Are Passed. Corn, Oats, Barley and Rye Standards Are Adopted. Indianapolis, Oct. 8. — The Grain Dealers’ National association’s convention conceded some of the demands made by the Chicago delegates for changes in the grades draft adopted at the St. Louis convention last year. The grain men have finally fixed upon uniform grading for corn, oats, barley and rye and adopted the Kansas City, Chicago and southwestern market grades on mllo maize and kaffir corn. They also made concessions by granting part of the Chicago men’s demands for changes in wheat tests. There were five demands by the Chicago men for changes in wheat gradings that were not granted. Steps were taken to reach an agreement on these five points by the authorization of a committee of five which will call a conference with the Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri and Kansas state commissions and prominent boards of trade. At this meetidg an effort will be made to get an agreement on these five grades of wheat. The first of the refusals was the demand to raise the test weighteof No. 2 white wheat from 56 to 57 pounds Another denial was the demand that No. 2, 3 and 4 hard winter wheat may contain a maximum of 25 per cent red winter wheat. . The convention refused to raise the test weignt of No. 1 hard spring wne:« from 58 to 59 pounds and No. 2 northern spring wheat from 57 to 57’4 pounds. The convention indicated it would grant an additional one pound to the test weights of velvet chaff wheat grades, but refused to accede to the Chicago demands to raise the weight test approximately three pounds. The convention conceded the demands of the Chicago men for the use of the word ‘ new” as now used in the Illinois rules.